Trump asked for Barr to host news conference clearing him on Ukraine

President Donald Trump asked Attorney General William Barr to hold a news conference clearing him of legal wrongdoing with regard to his phone call pressuring the Ukrainian President to investigate Democrats, a person familiar with the matter tells CNN. Trump has raised the idea in conversations surrounding the ongoing impeachment inquiry over recent weeks, and has said he thought the idea could help project the message that he hadn’t done anything wrong, the person familiar with the matter said. The source couldn’t say whether Barr and Trump had formally discussed the idea or whether Barr had ruled it out. But The Washington …read more